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Email marketing has been constantly developing for more than twenty years, and you can’t expect to generate new leads and acquire new subscribers using obsolete strategies and tactics. But what works, and what doesn’t, in email marketing today? To help you answer this question, Ascend2 and our Research Partners fielded the Email Marketing Survey. We thank the 272 marketing influencers who responded to this survey during the week of January 20, 2019. [...] [more]ascend2.comStudy

Just before the Christmas holidays, Google announced their new feature within Gmail called Gmail Annotations. It is no longer the wish of an Email Marketer to hit Gmail’s Primary inbox, but instead, to hit the place they once feared. The Promotions Tab. [...] [more]medium.comDesign

Animated GIF support—or the lack thereof—in Microsoft Outlook has long been a thorn in the sides of email marketers. A favorite of email geeks and subscribers alike, animated GIFs allow for movement and excitement in an otherwise static medium. But desktop Outlook users have always been left in the dark when it comes to animated GIFs. That is until now. The team at Microsoft announced that desktop Outlook will be getting an update to enable animated GIFs for Office 365 users starting in early [...] [more]litmus.comDesign

The results have shown that around 410px would be our ‘email fold’, receiving 12%of clicks within the first 25% of the email. Although there did continue to be an even spread of clicks between 410px and 1600px, with 80% of recipients continuing to engage this far down the email. This then increased slightly towards the end of the email, most likely due to Desktop opens. With 8% of users still clicking between 1600px and 1700px. 0.4% of Gmail users also clicked on the fake ‘View Entire Message’ call [...] [more]emaildesignreview.comDesign, Study

Staying on top of the ever-changing email world can feel like an impossible task. Email clients, platforms, and industry standards continue to evolve. New laws mean finding new ways to reach and speak to subscribers. Customer expectations have soared, as have their options for reading and acting on your emails. That’s why, every year, we round up the must-know data, trends, and innovations from the past 12 months into a one-stop resource: Litmus’ State of Email Report. [...] [more]litmus.comStudy

Is 10pm the new best time to send B2B emails? Another interesting finding is that despite conventional wisdom, we had our second highest click rate at 10pm. This is a pattern we've seen with B2B email newsletters in the past. Decision makers and business owners in particular tend to do their research and reading in the evening, not at 9am during the work week. [...] [more]theseventhsense.comB2B, Study, Sendtime

For the third year in a row, interactive email experiences were voted one of the hottest email design trends. So why don’t we see more interactive emails in our inboxes? For many brands, limited inbox provider support is the main reason they don’t send more interactive campaigns. You don’t have to fear limited support if you have a fallback in place. There are plenty of methods that help you create engaging, interactive emails where they are supported, while still guaranteeing a functional and [...] [more]litmus.comDesign

Whether you send transactional emails or marketing emails, the one thing every business can agree on is that getting to the inbox is critical—which is where email deliverability comes in. The 2019 Email Deliverability Guide includes updates on: Gmail Tabs, Microsoft Filtering, Oath and Verizon Media Group, Privacy and Compliance [...] [more]sendgrid.comDeliverability

Last month Jordan Grossman, Product Manager from Google partnered with Litmus to unveil the Promotions annotations and how adding a promotions information will be used inside Gmail’s inbox, alongside other changes. As part of this update, Gmail provided more detail on how they will be bundling promotional mail. This includes groupings such as Top Deal and Expiring Soon. Though there has been a fair amount of discussion around the bundles and how they will work, most of the hype has been focused on [...] [more]returnpath.comDesign, Marketing

This is a guest post from Molly Horstmann, the Content Marketing Manager at SmarterHQ. SmarterHQ is a leading behavioral marketing platform powering highly personalized, cross-channel customer experiences. Visit their site to learn more. The holidays have come and gone, and so have many of your seasonal customers. That is, unless you have a solid plan to keep them engaged with your brand in 2019—and start leveraging these strategies as soon as possible. The following campaigns and tactics will help [...] [more]mailcharts.comAutomation, Gallery

Spamtraps strike fear into the heart of senders. They’ve turned into this monster metric that can make or break a marketing program. They’ve become a measure and a goal and I think some [...] [more]wordtothewise.comDeliverability

1.5 billion people use Gmail every month, and 5 million paying businesses use Gmail in the workplace as a part of G Suite. For consumers and businesses alike, a big part of Gmail’s draw is its built-in security protections. Good security means constantly staying ahead of threats, and our existing ML models are highly effective at doing this—in conjunction with our other protections, they help block more than 99.9 percent of spam, phishing, and malware from reaching Gmail inboxes. Just as we evolve [...] [more]google.comSpam